The flashy girl from Flushing is reuniting with her on-screen family.
Fran Drescher had a night out on the town with her “The Nanny” co-star Charles Shaughnessy, who played her love interest Maxwell Sheffield on the six-season sitcom, the show’s co-creator Peter Marc Jacobson, and producers.
“Out 4 sup w/ mr sheffield and the EPs of ‘The Nanny,’” the actress, 67, captioned her Friday Instagram post. “A gr8 nite indeed!”
Drescher smiled near Shaughnessy, 70, and Jacobson, who is also her ex-husband. The 67-year-old served as both co-creator and showrunner.
Executive producers Robert Sternin, Diane Wilk and Prudence Fraser were also at the gathering.
Shaughnessy also posted the pic to his Instagram account, gushing, “Getting the band back together….?! A great night out with Susan and ‘The Nanny’ gang!!”
Fans flocked to the comments section to share their desire for the show to make a comeback.
“Please do a reboot,” one follower penned. “I want to see what the twins look like now. Watch Max and Fran become grandparents too. Love The Nanny. Thank you for bringing this show in to our lives. 💜😍.”
A second user chimed in, “‘Getting the Band back together’ Don’t tease us, Charlie 😭💕.”
Rounding out the sweet comments, a third fan added, “I love this photo so much!! So much nostalgia in this one picture! ❤️❤️ Max and Fran forever! Charlie, you look fantastic.”
The iconic series ran from 1993 to 1999 and followed Fran Fine (Drescher), a fashionable cosmetics saleswoman who becomes the caretaker for a widowed Broadway producer’s (Shaughnessy) three kids: Maggie, Brighton and Grace (Nicholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, Madeline Zima).
Drescher went on to executive produce the second half of the series.
In 2023, ahead of the show’s 30th anniversary, the actress teased the possibility of a revival.
“We were in conversations with Sony, our parent company, to figure out what we could do that would be fun and exciting for the fans to tune into,” Drescher revealed.
“We don’t really know, but we have a lot of options on the table, and we’re kind of open to all of them,” she explained, “and everything else, you know, will kind of take a back burner to this right now because there’s only one 30th anniversary. And the show, you know, is the gift that keeps on giving and has tremendous longevity.”
Renee Taylor landed the role as Fran Fine’s mother, Sylvia, on the sitcom.
The part scored the actress, 92, an Emmy-nomination in 1996.
“They didn’t want me on the show,” Taylor dished to The Post while celebrating the show’s 30th anniversary. “They wanted someone who was Episcopalian; they wanted Sheila MacRae to be the Jewish mother. Those were in the days when they didn’t want Jews to play Jews.”
But Drescher and Jacobson were fans of Taylor and her husband, Joe Bologna. The pair often worked together over the years, and garnered a 1970 Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for “Lovers and Other Strangers.”
“Fran had seen my [1971] movie, ‘Made for Each Other,’ with me and Joe,” she continued. “She and Peter were fans from when they were in high school and they used to call themselves ‘Renee and Joe.’ Fran said to me, ‘Renee, someday you’re going to play my mother.’”
“The Nanny” characters Sylvia and Mort Fine were based on Drescher’s real-life parents. Steve Lawrence portrayed Mort Fine while Drescher played Sylvia in flashbacks early on in the series.
CBS made it clear they were vying for MacRae to land the role of Sylvia, but Drescher took matters into her own hands.
“She said, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do,’” Taylor recalled. “‘We’ll bring you on the show as a guest [star] and let’s just say, ‘Hey, she might be good as the mother!’ And that’s exactly what happened. It was like [the network suits] ‘discovered’ me, like, ‘Oh, yeah, she might be good.’”
The Sheffield household also featured butler Niles (Daniel Davis), Maxwell’s business associate CC Babcock (Lauren Lane) and Fran’s Grandma Yetta (Ann Morgan Guilbert).
“It was like a real family even though we were playing a family [on the show],” Taylor confessed. “We were all madly in love with Mr. Sheffield and wanted to run away with him and be happily married.”
